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[GENUS CREX BeEcusTEIN. 
Crexr BrcustTeIn, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 336. Type, by 
monotypy, Crex pratensis BECHSTEIN = Rallus crex LINNXUs. 
Crex crex (LINN&US). Corn Crake. [217.] 
Rallus crex Linn=vs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. (Sweden.) 
RanGE.— Europe and northern Asia; casual in Greenland, Ber- 
muda, and eastern North America from Nova Scotia to New Jersey.] 
SupraMILty GALLINULINZAS. GaALuiNu_Les. 
GENUS IONORNIS REIcHENBACH. 
lonornis REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, xxi. Type, by orig. desig., 
Fulica martinicensis JAcQUIN = Fulica martinica LINN ZUS. 
Ionérnis martinicus (LINN=us). Purple Gallinule. [218.] 
Fulica martinica Linn=vs, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 259. (Martinique, 
West Indies.) 
RaNnGE.— Tropical and subtropical America. Breeds from Texas, 
Tennessee, and South Carolina south through Mexico and the West 
Indies to Ecuador and Paraguay; winters from Texas, Louisiana, 
and Florida southward; irregularly north in summer to Arizona, 
Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns- 
wick; accidental in England and Bermuda. 
GENUS GALLINULA Brisson. 
Gallinula Brisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 2. Type, by tautonymy [Gallinula] 
gallinula Brisson = Fulica chloropus LINN&XwS. 
Gallinula gale4ta (LicHTENSTEIN). Florida Gallinule. [219.] 
Crex galeata LICHTENSTEIN, Verz. Siug. u. Végel Mus. Berlin, 1818, 36. 
(Brazil.) 
RanGE.— Tropical and temperate America. Breeds from central 
California, Arizona, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ontario, New York, and 
